Tips for O Level Chemistry - Metal Reactivity Series

09 Sep

Posted by: sean in: Chemistry Qns & Ans, Good Learning Tools

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Yoz All O Level takers,

Hope things are going fine on your side.

First of all, i would like to thank Always Lovely for inviting me to share my thoughts and experiences in the World of wonderful Chemistry, and allowing me to give-back to the academia.

Recently, i have questions asking how to memorise the Metal Reactivity Series - in order to answer numerous questions that require the knowledge of the series. I certainly believed that school teachers would have improvised their own ways of helping you to memorize the series. Some are easy while unfortunately others are tough in way (for some that dont feel connected).

My suggestion is to come up with your own “Songs” or “Riddles” in order to easily memorise it. If you have no clue on how to do it, and do not like the one given by your teachers, perharps you want to try this one out:

Potassium -> Please
Sodium -> Send
Calcium -> Charlie
Magnesium -> Monkey
Aluminium -> And
Zinc -> Zebras
Iron -> In
Lead -> Large
Copper -> Cages
Mercury -> Most
Silver -> Securely
Gold -> Guarded

Hope you will find it useful.

All the Best
Sean
Chemistry Made Easy

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12 Responses

Anonymous
10|Sep|2007 1

there’s another method in remembering this (:

Please
Stop
Calling
Me
A
Zebra
I
Love
Chocolate
Milk
So
Good (:

Hope this helps too.

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Anonymous
11|Sep|2007 2

Please
Stop
Calling
Me
A
Zerba
Instead
Try
Learning
(H)ow
Copper
Strengthens
Gold

This is how i remember it…

[Reply]
Anonymous
12|Sep|2007 3

another way!!

please
stop
calling
me
a
zebra
in
the
library
hor
can
stop
girl

[Reply]
Anonymous
12|Sep|2007 4

Please
Stop
Calling
Me
A
Zebra
Instead
Let’s
Call
Serene
Gorilla

this works great for me.

[Reply]
Anonymous
15|Sep|2007 5

try this to remember =D :

People
Saw
China
Man
At
Zoo
In
Thailand
Looking
(H)orses
Chasing
Silver
Gorrilla

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tutu
15|Sep|2007 6

People - k
Say - na
Can - ca
Make - mg
A - al
Zoo - zn
In - iron
Tampines - tin
Let - lead
Hitler - hydrogen
Conquer - copper
Malaysia - mecury
So - sliver
Good - gold

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here to thank you for publicising your blog in my mine! -han
17|Sep|2007 7

Please
Send
Cats
Monkeys
And
Zebras
In
Large
Cages
Make
Sure
Padlocked {platinum, same as gold }

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Anonymous
26|Sep|2007 8

here’s another one!

Please
Stop
Calling
My
Aunt
Zee
In
London’s
House
Cos
She
Got
Piles

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evilgary
28|Sep|2007 9

THIS IS MINE

The potato(potassium) soap(sodium) cannot(calcium) magnetise(magnesium) alvin’s(aluminium) zit(zinc) in(iron)
to(tin) leading(lead) hydro(hydrogen) cop(copper) so merge(mercury) silver gold and plantinum together

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Anonymous
05|Oct|2007 10

HEY. i love chemistry and i think this works.

Please - potassium
Stop -Sodium
Calling -Calcium
Me -Magnesium
A -aluiminium
Zebra -zinc
In -iron
The -tin
Library -lead
Call -copper
Me -mercury
Something -silver
Good -gold
Please (: -platinum

taught by my sch teacher

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Jade Driver Reply:
October 31st, 2008 at 1:42 am
thanks for the help it is a realli good method

[Reply]
Illusion
21|May|2008 11

Please - potassiun
Stop - sodium
Calling -calcium
Me - magnesium
A - aluminium
Zebra - zinc
I - iron
Like - lead
Hot - hydrogen
Chocolate - copper
Mix - mercury
Strawberry - silver
Pie - platinum

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